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length of the body, black, the third and fourth joints equal, the 

 rest shorter, somewhat trigonately shaped. Thorax scarcely broader 

 than long, the sides before the middle produced in a rounded promi- 

 nence ; another less strongly marked protuberance is placed close to 

 the posterior margins at the sides ; surface convex at the anterior 

 portion, the latter divided by a short longitudinal groove ; disk 

 strongly but not very closely punctured and covered with rather long 

 yellow pubescence. Elytra subdepressed anteriorly, nearly parallel, 

 more strongly punctured than the thorax, and pubescent like the 

 latter. Legs black, covered with yellow iiairs ; posterior tibae curved. 



Wada toge (August) ; Fukushima (July). 



I am somewhat in doubt whether this species is not the normally 

 coloured form of T, hicolor, Kraatz, to which at all events it is very 

 closely allied ; the differences consist in the entirely black thorax 

 and abdomen, and perhaps in the less closely rugose-punctate head 

 of the present species. Kraatz drew his description from a single 

 specimen, which had the posterior margin of the thorax yellow as 

 well as the abdomen ; but as in the five specimens before me I cannot 

 discover any trace of this colour, I must consider the species as 

 specifically distinct. I may further add that the latter is not more 

 robust or broader in shape than P. annulata, which is the case with 

 P. bicolor according to the description, and that the legs in some 

 specimens (probably immature) are obscure fulvous. 



Pedrillia varipes, n. sp. 



Below, the posterior legs, and the antennae (the two basal joints 

 excepted) black ; above, the anterior legs, and the tarsi fulvous ; 

 elytra and thorax closely punctured, finely pubescent. 



Var. Head and thorax black. 



Length 1| line. 



Head distinctly but remotely punctured, with a narrow longitu- 

 dinal smooth central space ; that between the antennae with a deep 

 transverse groove ; two lower joints of the antennse fulvous, the 

 rest black, fourth joint distinctly longer than ti)e third, the following 

 joints short and somewhat triangular-shaped. Thorax nearly as long 

 as broad, the sides produced at or immediately before the middle in 

 a distinct angle, behind which a short but deep transverse groove is 

 ])laced, onlv visible from below ; entire surface covered with deep and 

 rather closely placed punctures, sparingly pubescent. Elytra parallel 

 and subcylindrical, punctured and pubescent like the thorax, but of 

 a rather lighter fulvous or testaceous colour ; the space behind the 

 middle is very slightly depressed ; the four posterior legs piceous or 

 black ; anterior ones and the tarsi fnlvous. 



Nikko, June ; Chiuzenzi. 



Smaller and less robust than P. nigricollis, the thorax more 

 coarsely and more distantly punctured, and the anterior legs as well 

 as all the tarsi fulvous. A single specimen of the variety with black 

 head and thorax is before me, but 1 cannot find any other characters 

 sufficient to separate this form as another species. 



